Monday, May 27, 2019
★★★ A sprightly, nostalgic musical of the 1960s sacrifices some of the stronger qualities of its cinematic source
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:00PMThursday, May 23, 2019
★★★★ Two gifted first-timers, the Brothers Lazour, find melody and hope in recent historical events marked as much by defeat as by triumph
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PMFriday, November 30, 2018
★★★★ Shadow Box author shadow-boxes with charismatic real-life champ, wins on points
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:18PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
★★★★ McNally, Ahrens and Flaherty ransack the operetta playbook, with pleasing results
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:50PMSunday, September 30, 2018
★★★★ Director Mark Lamos invests a musical theater perennial with novelty and life
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:01PMSunday, September 9, 2018
★★★★★ A classic poem becomes a stunning music theater piece celebrating identity and dignity in the face of oppression
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:40PMMonday, August 20, 2018
Harriet Harris shines as Chris Durang’s nutty nun, while Robert E. Sherwood’s vintage melodrama just shines, period.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01AMSaturday, August 11, 2018
★★★★ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:02PMFriday, July 27, 2018
★★ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:30AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
★★★ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane’s uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PMMonday, September 11, 2017
A rare photo among the plates in Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion features a smiling Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, and the director posing for an ultimately spiked TV Guide cover that was…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMMonday, December 12, 2016
Surveys of musicals, if they do nothing else, inevitably incite arguments between the author and the reader. There's plenty of grist for the argument mill in Dietz's tome.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35AM 
